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NetLab remote laboratory
NetLab
is the UniSA remote laboratory developed by staff and students in the
School of Electrical
and Information Engineering. The development was financially
supported by the school and by the UniSA Teaching and Learning Grant in
2002. Unlike virtual laboratories which simulate experiments, remote
laboratories allow users to control real equipment from a distance.
NetLab is a learning environment which students use to perform experiments over the internet from anywhere in the world at any time. NetLab is also a research environment for honours, master and PhD students who work on its enhancements and extensions, as well as for research into issues in human-machine interaction and technology effects on learning.
The two main current projects are:
- NetLab upgrade (Honours project)
- Remote microelectronics manufacturing facility (PhD project)
Features
NetLab is a unique development because of its features that include:
- a graphical user interface (GUI) which employs photographic images of instruments with animated controls to make NetLab look and behave as realistic as possible
- a telepresence provided by a fully controllable web camera
- a multi-user environment that supports up to three users to remotely collaborate on the same experiment
- Circuit Builder module that allows circuits to be remotely wired and values of components changed.
Using NetLab
You will need to
register and create an account to use NetLab.
Contacts
For further information please contact
Mr Jan Machotka or
Ms
Zorica Nedic
Access grid rooms
An
access grid is a type of advanced video conferencing focusing on group-to-group collaboration rather than desktop-based person to person
conferencing. It can be applied to distributed
meetings, lectures, research projects and seminars and more.
Access grid rooms provide a wide range of audiovisual resources (eg data projectors, cameras and microphones) to collaborate with remote participants. The grid is designed to integrate large numbers of participants, handle high-quality visualisation, and data and application sharing.
Facilities
Since building its first access grid room in 2006, there are now nine Access Grid nodes providing multipoint conferencing from Whyalla, Magill, City East, City West and Mawson Lakes to grid rooms around the world. The ISTS E2-28 meeting room is quality assured and work is underway to ensure all grid rooms meet this high standard for quality conferencing.
The UniSA Access Grid Room (AGR) in Room Q1-01, Mawson Lakes campus, has a capacity to seat 67 and doubles as a normal lecture theatre. Facilities include three Screen Technics fixed panel screens to display output from three Sony data projectors. There are four Sony pan tilt cameras, four ceiling mounted microphones, whiteboard, 100 watt amplifier, a tablet PC with ebeam white board software and a Sony DVD combo.
Bookings
Access grid rooms, along with technical support, are available on all campuses and can be booked through the Facilities Management Unit. Check the Facilities Management Unit site for updates.
SA NT DataLink
Researchers
in South Australia and the Northern Territory will soon have access to some
of the most comprehensive historical health and human services data in
Australia with the foundation of
SA NT DataLink
The new secure environment has been established at the University of South Australia's City East campus to enhance the linking of routinely collected historical government health, education and community services data from SA and the NT.
Director of SA NT DataLink, Professor Robyn McDermott says the capacity to link this data will be of enormous importance to health and population research, future service planning and delivery and to help gauge the success of health and other programs.